A Land Use application has been submitted to allow a 4-story structure containing 85 residential units above 3,000 sq. ft. of commercial and 7 live-work units. Parking for 48 vehicles to be provided below grade. Existing structures to be demolished.

A Land Use Application has been submitted to subdivide the site into three unit lots. This subdivision of property is only for the purpose of allowing sale or lease of the unit lots. Development standards will be applied to the original parcel and not to each of the new unit lots.

A Land Use Application has been submitted to allow a 1,952 sq. ft. to be used as community center (urban rest stop) at ground level in a 51 unit low-income elderly apartment building (approved under separate permit #6305188).

You’re right! When I see human feces, needles, empty beer bottles, cigarette butts all thrown in my garden (Ballard’s homeless never seem short for cash for those important accoutrements). When I hear drunk hobos fighting, cussing, littering, yelling racist and sexist insults at passersby day in, day out, 24 hours a day. When they break into cars to steal my iPhone charger and 50 cents and cause $500 worth of damage to my car, damn right I say NIMBY.

Ballard is very popular. The home values are rising quickly. People who own homes or condos benefit from preventing more people from moving in via new growth–they are asking the government to stop other people from building housing–something Seattle desperately needs more of–that would make their own home a less scarce commodity, and worth even more.

Don’t listen to these people. Ballard is urban–it thrives on density. The people looking to exclude and demonize others are selfish, and bad for the city. I lived in Ballard 30 years ago, and it’s a much better place today. I look forward to welcoming more new neighbors. To hell with the people who want to exclude my friends from being able to afford to move here so their property values can keep going up and up.

You haven’t traveled much have you? Ballard is a suburb of a small town called Seattle. We like it that way. If you want to live in Belltown and have folks smoking crack in your doorway, by all means, move there.

Sorry, Kylek, but the planned use of an URS in the middle of downtown Ballard – a stone’s throw from the library, commons park, and boys & girls club – is not an appropriate use for that location. Most of the Ballard residents I’ve spoken to agree and most of those folks are pretty tolerant.

The intentions of LIHI are good – I like the senior housing component – but an URS should not be placed in that spot. A URS should be placed in an industrial area (say – Freelard) away from the kiddies.

Visit the URS in downtown. It’s not what I want for Ballard – you may want something different.